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| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1tyrAur0 | Jul 19 02:02 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Jul 19 02:02 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Smartest thing steve Jobs did was to cancel the dividend when the company needed cash to reinvest in its future. IBM investors wont approve that. It takes a really strong CEO vision. If IBM cancelled the dividend, theyd just carve it up as exec payouts and buy more companies to pilage. | Jul 19 02:02 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 1 hour ago by Anonymous | Jul 19 02:02 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 1 reaction (+1/-0) | Jul 19 02:02 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @1rqw+1tyrAur0 | Jul 19 02:02 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +8 | Jul 19 02:02 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | If you take the long view, sure, everything comes to an end, especially tech. Even Earth has an expiration date. Some companies die off due to natural obsolescence — coal mines, for example — but most do so because of poor leadership, complacency, corruption, inability to pivot, diversify, etc. | Jul 19 02:02 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Does IBM have a coherent strategy right now? Slash and burn. Make up arbitrary, constantly-changing rules for RTO and PIPs to get rid of people regardless of the value of their contribution or institutional memory, and offshore everything to subpar, low-paid, resources in the CEO’s country of choice. WatsonX is a Hail Mary pass. But anyone who has interacted with it knows it can’t compete because it’s absolute garbage, and ir | Jul 19 02:02 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | retrievably so given the trajectory of the company. | Jul 19 02:02 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | As far as I can tell, the Mustache is a man without a vision, or a backup plan, other than driving up the stock price by moving numbers around on a spreadsheet quarter-to-quarter, surrounded by yes-men, and despised by a good chunk of the workforce. | Jul 19 02:02 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | He knows he’s an unloved, placeholder CEO and doesn’t care. He’s going to use the company as a short-term cash grab for himself and his cronies while he can. IBM may have been in decline before him, but he’s an accelerant. Will the board let him burn the company to the ground before a better leader can come in and try to save it, is anyone’s guess. | Jul 19 02:02 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | I'm probably the only one on here that has used a RCA Spectra 70, which was basically an IBM 360 clone. | Jul 19 02:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Here is a dramatic retelling of one of its uses. | Jul 19 02:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgsfXnTWXeI | Jul 19 02:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I used it to do some work for RCA for the Trident submarine in the remains of the factory that RCA used for making Elvis records (RCA Camden label). | Jul 19 02:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 12 hours ago by Anonymous | Jul 19 02:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 2 reactions (+2/-0) | Jul 19 02:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @1ooq+1tyrAur0 | Jul 19 02:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +4 | Jul 19 02:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Lou Gerstner did something similar at IBM - laid off 100,000 and effectively destroyed the old IBM culture. It survived, and rebounded, but the glory days were gone and any 'respect for the individual' was gone. | Jul 19 02:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | To be honest, if you really want to look up the greatest company destroyer to ever exist in the USA, look no further than Milton Friedman and Wall Street. | Jul 19 02:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 12 hours ago by Anonymous | Jul 19 02:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 4 reactions (+4/-0) | Jul 19 02:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @1qyc+1tyrAur0 | Jul 19 02:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +4 | Jul 19 02:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | GE in particular was destroyed by the actions of 2 of its CEOs, Neutron Jack Welch and | Jul 19 02:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Jeff Immelt. | Jul 19 02:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Neutron Jack in particular showed many other CEOs how to destroy a company (in rich people's parlance, 'how to extract wealth'). | Jul 19 02:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Why is Jack Welch called Neutron Jack? | Jul 19 02:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | After Welch laid off more than 100,000 people in his first years as CEO, he earned the nickname he hated but could never shake: "Neutron Jack," a reference to the neutron bo-b, which purportedly ki-ls people while leaving buildings standing. | Jul 19 02:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 12 hours ago by Anonymous | Jul 19 02:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 4 reactions (+4/-0) | Jul 19 02:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @1hgx+1tyrAur0 | Jul 19 02:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +11 | Jul 19 02:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Whilst IBM may be the last of the companies standing from a historical perspective, I don't believe how it's currently run constitutes a short-term plan or a long term plan for growth or even stability. | Jul 19 02:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | We're not asking the company to overtake Google and Nvidia. Just to have a plan that's believable and plays to our strengths. | Jul 19 02:03 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | ' | Jul 19 02:03 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-@Invidious: https://inv.bp.mutahar.rocks/watch?v=ZgsfXnTWXeI | Jul 19 02:03 | |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | <li> | Jul 19 08:35 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <h5><a href="https://linuxiac.com/netfilter-announces-nftables-1-1-0-release/">Netfilter Announces nftables 1.1.0 Release</a></h5> | Jul 19 08:35 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <blockquote> | Jul 19 08:35 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>The Netfilter team has officially released nftables version 1.1.0, marking an important update to this firewalling and networking toolset, which is widely used in the Linux ecosystem. </p> | Jul 19 08:35 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p> This release, finalized after eight months of development, incorporates numerous fixes and improvements to enhance stability, compatibility, and usability. Here are the most important ones. </p> | Jul 19 08:35 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </blockquote> | Jul 19 08:35 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </li> | Jul 19 08:35 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-linuxiac.com | Netfilter Announces nftables 1.1.0 Release | Jul 19 08:35 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <li> | Jul 19 08:37 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <h5><a href="https://9to5linux.com/nvidia-560-linux-graphics-driver-to-fully-adopt-open-source-gpu-kernel-modules">NVIDIA 560 Linux Graphics Driver to Fully Adopt Open-Source GPU Kernel Modules - 9to5Linux</a></h5> | Jul 19 08:37 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <blockquote> | Jul 19 08:37 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>NVIDIA announced their plans to fully transition to the open-source GPU kernel modules with the upcoming NVIDIA 560 graphics driver for Linux-based operating systems. </p> | Jul 19 08:37 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p> It’s been two years since NVIDIA released the first Linux graphics driver with open-source GPU kernel modules, which will eventually replace the proprietary, closed-source driver when these mature. </p> | Jul 19 08:37 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </blockquote> | Jul 19 08:37 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </li> | Jul 19 08:37 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Jul 19 08:37 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-NVIDIA 560 Linux Graphics Driver to Fully Adopt Open-Source GPU Kernel Modules - 9to5Linux | Jul 19 08:37 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | x https://www.r-bloggers.com/2024/07/vba-saving-and-closing-a-workbook/ | Jul 19 09:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | # how can this tsunamni of m$ spam be countered in the R community? | Jul 19 09:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | # similar attacks are going on in the corresponding Perl and Python | Jul 19 09:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | # communities | Jul 19 09:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | # ^ topic ? | Jul 19 09:18 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-VBA: Saving and Closing a Workbook | R-bloggers | Jul 19 09:18 | |
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